New Jersey - Donna Dennis: Two Cabins and a Dish at New Jersey Center for Visual Arts

Donna Dennis: Two Cabins and a Dish

Donna Dennis's work is inspired by overlooked fragments of rural and urban vernacular architecture. She is best known for her complex, lyrical and metaphorical sculptural installations often of subway stations. She is intrigued by the way a building can stand in for a human presence. In a recent issue of Sculpture magazine, Deborah Everett wrote, 'When Donna Dennis created her earnest, plain-spoken Tourist Cabins at the outset of her career in the early 1970's, they had the impact of cultural icons.'

Her cabin inspired sculptures have been widely exhibited at Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, Hirshhorn Museum, ICA in London, and the Venice Bienale. Outdoors the work has been exhibited at the Neuberger Museum, Storm King Art Center, and Aberdeen, South Dakota, where the cabins were exhibited floating in Moccasin Creek. The artist's work is in many prominent collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Microsoft Collection, Walker Art Center, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst in Aachen in Germany, Indianapolis Museum, San Diego Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Neuberger Museum. [ more information ]

Dec 3, 2007 - Jul 31, 2008

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

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Exhibition brings together images of constellations of elements that explode, collide, proliferate, and sometimes mutate like so many stars, seeds, microbes, and in many cases signs of our human attempts to map, configure, and understand these realms ... more

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